Heavy Weapon Performance under V2

[Eques]

Sooooooo

How is Heavy Weapon playing out under the revised rules?

I seem to remember people predicting Dacians and Thracians in particular becoming super-Armies in period.

Any comments?

[batesmotel]

The combination of MF Heavy Weapon with rear rank bow or crossbow may be the real winner under the V2 changes. Various Empires of the Dragon armies are a lot more viable now.

Chris

[gozerius]

Thracians have always been a super army. But MF are much more vulnerable to HF and mounted in the open at impact, since losing an impact always gets you a -1 now plus another for MF losing to mounted/HF. And skirmishers with bow or sling suffer from reduced ranges.

[philqw78]

Sooooooo

How is Heavy Weapon playing out under the revised rules?

I seem to remember people predicting Dacians and Thracians in particular becoming super-Armies in period.

Any comments?

They have become a lot more cost effective against Roman skilled swordsmen

[eldiablito]

Thank goodness that heavy weapons were not broken. Yes, they perform better, but not so much so that they are destroying everyone in front of them.

I happen to play quite a bit of Hundred Year War, and Later Medieval Danes... For both versions. I can tell you that they are a bit more scary to Romans, but not enough for my troops to defeat better players. ...and thank goodness that I should not beat better players because I took lots of heavy weapons!